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Custom Web Development & DevOps Consulting in North Carolina

Build fast. Launch everywhere. Relax. Your apps just work with PortIgniter.

Providing North Carolina organizations and businesses with modern, containerized products and IT solutions, resulting in faster releases and fewer incidents, all delivered with a smile.

Services Overview

Build Containers

Build

From concept to container: your app, built right the first time.

Automations

Automate

CI/CD powered. Automate everything and ship faster.

Security for Containers

Secure

Locked down. Security comes standard.

Deploy Applications

Deploy

Deploy in style: one click, no stress.

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Are they finding you, or your competition?

Affordable, Custom Development Solutions.

Smart design. Scalable code. Small business pricing.

Development Services

Self Hosted. Prepackaged Solutions.

Ready‑made apps that solve real problems. Customize or deploy instantly.

Custom Integration

Server & Platform Integration Solutions.

Expert engineering for seamless systems and secure scaling.

Training and Consulting

Everything I Offer, In One PDF.

Take the services catalog with you, or pass it along to your team.

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New New Courses are Live

New Courses Are Live

Self-paced IT training on the PortIgniter LMS, including a 450-page Linux Basics course.

Available Courses

About the LMS

Reef

A complete Self-hosted Learning Management System.

A lightweight, self-hosted learning management system: a drag-and-drop course builder, Markdown lessons with video, audio and code, quizzes with ten question types and server-timed exams, verifiable PDF certificates, and course sales and memberships through Stripe.

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Reef

Self-hosted, endpoint security monitoring with Reef

File integrity, audit data, hardening, malware, compliance, and CVE scanning in one clean dashboard. The visibility of a monitoring platform without a heavy licensing bill.

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Docker

Docker Development and Deployment

Modernize your apps. From new builds to seamless migrations: run anywhere, with confidence.

Containerization Services Kubernetes Services

Let’s build something remarkable together.

Book your free 30‑minute consultation — no sales pitch, just solutions.

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Latest News and Support Articles

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PortIgniter LMS Documentation Is Live

The full PortIgniter LMS documentation is now on the support site, one day before launch: installation, course building, quizzes, selling, certificates, reports, and the course file format.

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Kubernetes Basics Course

Kubernetes Basics teaches you Kubernetes hands on, on your own Linux machine, with no cloud account required.

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Reef 2026.10.23: Know What's Failing, Know What's Plugged In

Reef agents now watch disk health with SMART and track every USB device and removable medium on the host, with alerts that take you straight to the agent page.

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PortIgniter LMS Is Almost Here: Your Courses, Your Server, Your Rules

A fast, self-hosted learning platform for technical trainers. $100 gets you the code and a full year of updates, and the MIT license means it's yours to keep and change forever.

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Free Powershell Course

Powershell Basics will get you up and running quickly using real-world examples.

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Reef version 2026.10.02 Released!

This release includes ~120 new YARA Rules and a new POAM tracking integration.

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Reef, LMS, and new training courses!

Reef Standard is available, PortIgniter LMS arrives in December, and a 450-page Linux Basics course is live.

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Understanding journald: The Linux System Journal

A practical journald and journalctl primer for web and server security administrators - what it is, how it fits into systemd, and the commands you'll actually use to investigate, filter, and audit logs.

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Basic Commands for AuditD

An easy to follow guide on how to get the most out of AuditD on your Linux system

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PowerShell Basics for JSON Operations

An easy to follow guide on how to use PowerShell for quick local data manipulation

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